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An edited collection of essays published to coincide with the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade

Includes bibliographical references and index

Liverpool's dominance in the British slave trade, 1740-1807 / Kenneth Morgan -- African agency and the Liverpool slave trade / Paul E. Loveoy and David Richardson -- Human capital in the British slave trade / Stephen D. Behrendt -- Liverpool's slave trade to the colonial Chesapeake: slaving on the periphery / Lorena S. Walsh -- The Liverpool slave trade, Lancaster and its environs / Melinda Elder -- The Atlantic slave trade and African ethnicities in seventeenth-century Jamaica / Trevor Burnard -- The wealth and social aspirations of Liverpool's slave merchants of the second half of the eighteenth century / David Pope -- 'Cemented by the blood of a Negro'? The impact of the slave trade on eighteenth-century Liverpool / Jane Longmore -- Commerce civilization and Christianity: the development of the Sierra Leone Company / Suzanne Schwarz -- Abolitionism in Liverpool / Brian Howman

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